| BELTUG Update 24 March 2011 |
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Lobbying
1. Meeting with Chris Fonteijn, Chair BEREC (the European Regulators)
2. INTUG/BELTUG respond to EC consultation on Mobile Roaming
3. SIP certification for vendors
Networking
1. V-ICT-or and BELTUG launch combined membership
2. A warm welcome to our newest members
3. Join our LinkedIn groups Information and vision
1. Consultation results: experiences of mission-critical teleconferences with external people
2. Consultation request: experiences with Ethernet in the First Mile?
3. New BELTUG Replay online
4. New presentations available
5. Gartner CIO 2011
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Lobbying |
| BELTUG defends your interests and addresses issues with government representatives and service providers. |
1. Meeting with Chris Fonteijn, Chair BEREC (the European Regulators) |
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At its 4 March meeting, BEREC, the group of 27 European regulators, determined to focus on the business market. In the meantime, Roeland Vander meiren and Danielle Jacobs of BELTUG met with Chris Fonteijn, Chair of BEREC, on behalf of INTUG, the international telecoms users group. We showed him clear examples of how the single market for electronic communications is not a reality for businesses like the concerns about international mobile services and the many cross-border issues with cloud computing and security and privacy. |
2. INTUG/BELTUG respond to EC consultation on Mobile Roaming |
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As we reported in our January 2011 Update, the European Commission is carrying out a consultation on the next stage of the EU Roaming Regulation. INTUG/BELTUG prepared our position, which stresses the unfortunate lack of progress reported by business users in areas including the reduction of mobile communication costs, improvements in service quality and coverage, and the availability of global contracts, adequate billing and reporting. |
3. SIP certification for vendors at Belgacom |
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On February 23, BELTUG and Belgacom organised a meeting for PBX vendors on SIP certification, at which Belgacom presented its approach. This included explaining why vendor SIP certification is important for the future rollout of Unified Communications solutions, and how PBX vendors can get their SIP certification from Belgacom. Over the coming weeks, the vendors will go through the specifications and pass their concerns and questions to BELTUG. Although BELTUG works for the business ICT users, we feel that our participation in bringing the different vendors together will result in our members benefiting from increased competition. |
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Networking
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1. V-ICT-OR and BELTUG launch combined membership |
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V-ICT-OR (the association of the ICT professionals of the Flemish local authorities) and BELTUG have launched a joint membership that will allow us to facilitate the exchange of information. We are off to a flying start, with 14 communities/municipalities joining BELTUG through this new initiative. |
2. A warm welcome to our newest members |
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We would like to welcome all our new members who joined last month: Province de Liège, Trend Micro, Voxtron, Quintiles, Synsip, BKM, Synergrid, Gemeentebesturen Evergem, Zwijndrecht, Neerpelt, Ravels, Riemst, OCMW Lokeren, Heist-op-den-Berg, OCMW Geraardsbergen, Stadsbesturen Knokke-Heist, Bilzen, Genk, Halle, Roeselare, and Digipolis, Genesys Conferencing, Ascom, Corelio, Cofinimmo, Leyton. |
3. Join our LinkedIn groups |
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Don’t forget to join our LinkedIn groups; to be the firsts to get news and info firsthand and to facilitate your one-on-one contacts. There ‘s one exclusively for ICT decision makers and one for all. Get connected with trusted BELTUG contacts. |
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| Information and vision |
| We want BELTUG members to be the best informed ICT decision makers and professionals. |
1. Consultation results: experiences of mission-critical teleconferences with external people |
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We organised a BELTUG consultation for one of our members that needs to arrange telephone conference calls with external people (e.g. meetings with analysts and investors, announcements of annual results, etc.) a few times per year. These teleconferences are critical, and must be run using telephone only, under ideal technical circumstances and support. The feedback we received on this topic is summarised. |
2. Consultation request: experiences with Ethernet in the First Mile? |
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One of our members, an organisation with a lot of sites, is looking into the possibility of introducing EFM (Ethernet in the First Mile), ADSL and VDLS on the Explore network. They are interested to hear whether other professional users are satisfied with the stability and performance of these products.
If you have relevant experience, please let us know at info@beltug.be if this member may contact you to learn about your experiences. |
3. New BELTUG Replays online |
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Now you can listen to a replay of selected presentations, synchronised with the slides.There are 4 new Replays available: members can listen to a Replay of the presentations of Solvay on "PBX Consolidation and Centralisation", The IPv6 Council on "Ready for IPv6? Opportunities and challenges for the business user", Agentschap Ondernemen on "Unified communications" and VRT on "Reflections on an RFP, one year later".
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4. New presentations available |
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We also have lots of new presentations for our members to check out this month, on a variety of topics:
01-03-2011 X-change Investigating Security in the Cloud – Presentations by Belgacom, Delta Lloyd and the FCCU.
01-03-2011 X-change Telecom Expense Management – Presentations by KBC and Katoen Natie.
15-02-2011 X-change on SIP trunking – Presentations by Interoute, Johnson Controls and Havenbedrijf Gent.
15-02-2011 X-change The future of the PBX – Presentations by Alcatel-Lucent, Solvay, Siemens Enterprise Communications and Tam Tam Consulting. |
5. Reimagining IT: The Gartner 2011 CIO Survey
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Gartner has released its 2011 CIO Survey. Almost half of all CIOs expect to operate their applications and infrastructures via cloud technologies within the next five years. A serious challenge for BELTUG. |
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